Effects of Japanese herbal medicine Sairei-to on murine experimental autoimmune uveitis

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 251, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2733-2739

  Kaburaki, Toshikatsu ^a   Zhang, Qi ^b   Jin, Xiangyuan ^b   Uchiyama, Masateru ^b   Fujino, Yujiro ^a   Nakahara, Hisae ^a   Takamoto, Mitsuko ^a   Otomo, Kazuyoshi ^a,b   Niimi, Masanori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Experimental autoimmune uveitis; Herbal medicine; Mice; Sairei to

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERPHOTORECEPTOR RETINOID BINDING PROTEIN; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; SAIREI TO; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE UVEITIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HERBAL MEDICINE; IMMUNIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FEMALE; HERBAL MEDICINE; INTERFERON-GAMMA; JAPAN; LYMPH NODES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; UVEITIS;

EID: 84891401773     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-013-2473-6     Document Type: Article

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